MEANWHILE, AT THE RANCH…

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MEANWHILE, AT THE RANCH…

After stepping off the boat in the Galapagos, we needed a place to rest our salty bones, a place we could call our ever-new home for a couple of days before jetting off once more and AirBnb again provided the answer, this time offereing up an incrediblefarm! 60 minutes from the Quito airport, we came to put down our now world-weary luggage in the perfect place…

Carla, our host, was beyond helpful in offering a transfer from the airport for 6 tired bodies, and Manuel, the home’s caretaker, welcomed us with a smile into her ranch, made perfectly complete by a flower and organic vegetable garden. And how can you resist a place with its own antique, 45-based jukebox and saddles, ready to be thrown on horses and ridden into the mountains!…

I took out my own 2012 Chateauneuf Du Pape, having forgotten to open it on the boat, and chased it with Sebastien’s selection, a local boxed Cab, in other words, perfection…

…especially when coupled with side-of-the-road swordfish…

Sebastien cooked up a wonderful lunch outside…

…followed by a hug…

…homework…

…and a nap among the gallinas…

Tomorrow, we leave for Peru but not without paying a visit to the center of the world, we are in Equateur, after all… See you there.